If you work with VMware Cloud Director and haven’t visited Stellios’s blog before you’re missing out. Stellios has a wealth of experience from his days as a customer and now works as a VMware TAM in BrisVegas. This article on LDAPS in vCD 9.5 was particularly useful.

Here are a few links to some random news items and other content that I found interesting. You might find them interesting too. Let’s dive in to lucky number 13.

Pure Storage recently acquired software-defined filer company Compuverde. You can read the press release here. Speaking of Pure Storage, Cody has a great rundown on Pure Storage’s FlashArray NVMe-oF support that you can read here.

Liking the sound of file in your NVMe-oF? You’ll be happy to know that E8 Storage and ThinkParQ announced a technology partnership to enable the integration of BeeGFS with E8 Storage’s NVMe-oF solution. You can find the press release here.

Speaking of Backblaze, this article on SSDs and reliability should prove useful, particularly if you’re new to the technology. And the salty comments from various readers are great too.

Zerto just announced the myZerto Labs Program as a way for “IT professionals to test, understand and experiment with the IT Resilience Platform using virtual infrastructure”. You can sign up here.

If you’re in the area, I’m speaking at the Sydney VMUG UserCon on Tuesday 19th March. I’ll be covering how to “Build Your Personal Brand by Starting and Maintaining a Blog”. It’s more about blogging than branding, but I’m hoping there’s enough to keep the punters engaged. Details here. If you can’t get along to the event, I’ll likely publish the deck on this site in the near future.

The nice people at Axellio had some success at the US Air Force Pitch Day recently. You can read more about that here.

UltraViolet is going away. This kind of thing is disheartening (and a big reason why I persist in buying physical copies of things still).

I’m heading to Dell Technologies World this year. Michael was on the TV recently, talking about the journey and looking ahead. You can see more here.

Here are a few links to some random news items and other content that I found interesting. You might find it interesting too. Maybe. Happy New Year too. I hope everyone’s feeling fresh and ready to tackle 2019.

QNAP announced the TR-004 over the weekend and I had one delivered on Tuesday. It’s unusual that I have cutting edge consumer hardware in my house, so I’ll be interested to see how it goes.

It’s not too late to register for Cohesity’s upcoming Helios webinar. I’m looking forward to running through some demos with Jon Hildebrand and talking about how Helios helps me manage my Cohesity environment on a daily basis.

Here are a few links to some random news items and other content that I found interesting. You might find it interesting too. Maybe. This will be the last one for this year. I hope you and yours have a safe and merry Christmas / holiday break.

Alastair is back in the classroom, teaching folks about AWS. He published a bunch of very useful notes from a recent class here.

The folks at Backblaze are running a “Refer-A-Friend” promotion. If you’re looking to become a new Backblaze customer and sign up with my referral code, you’ll get some free time on your account. And I will too! Hooray! I’ve waxed lyrical about Backblaze before, and I recommend it. The offer runs out on January 6th 2019, so get a move on.

From time to time I like to poke fun at my friends in the US for what seems like an excessive amount of shenanigans happening in that country, but there’s plenty of boneheaded stuff happening in Australia too. Read Preston’s article on the recently passed anti-encryption laws to get a feel for the heady heights of stupidity that we’ve been able to reach recently.

I spent more time than I should putting media into my Plex environment, and have been looking for ways to optimise the experience. This series of articles by Carolyn Van Slyck has inspired me to do some more work on my transcode workflow. I’m also looking at doing something like this or this to automatically ingest the media in the first place.

(Site sponsor) Vembu recently announced Vembu BDR Essentials for Small Businesses. You can read more about that here.

Welcome to the sixth edition of the Random Short Take. Here are a few links to a few things that I think might be useful, to someone.

I’m a big fan of Plex, and recently moved it from my iMac onto a Debian-based NAS. There’s a comprehensive Linux Permissions Guide that you can get here. It came in handy because I have a number of NAS devices serving up media. And you don’t want to see what I did to get multiple volumes mounted via SMB. (It gets ugly when I want the DVR component to be able to record to any share)

So it’s been over six months since I did one of these, and it’s clear that I’m literally rubbish at doing them regularly.

I’ve been testing a number of data protection solutions recently and have needed to generate some data on some Linux VMs to back up. There are all kinds of ways of doing this on Linux, including using dd and /dev/urandom. You can also check out this handy guide on large Linux file creation here. The most useful tool I’ve come across though is from Preston. You can grab a copy of his Perl script here. Thanks also for having short URLs that are easy to remember and pump through wget. And while you’re at it – go buy a copy of Preston’s latest book – it’s great!

One of the reasons I don’t record demos of technical things is that no-one wants to see me bumbling my way around SQL Management Studio. This article won’t help you with SQL, but it does provide a decent starting point when you’re looking at SQL backup and recovery activities.

I’ve probably mentioned it already, but I’ll be at Dell Technologies World and Pure//Accelerate this year. You can find out details on my events page. I’m not sure what other U.S. events I’ll be at this year. If you’re at any of these things and want to say hi or meet up please feel free to get in contact. Or just come up to me and say hi.

Oracle VM came up in a project I was working on recently. This overview page was a reasonable starting point. Finally, check out Stephen Foskett’s article on ZFS. I thought it was well-balanced and a good read, and the article comments reminded me why I’ve stayed the hell away from that particular community. In any case, if you’re going to be at VMworld US this year, come and say hi.

My hosting provider moved me to a new platform in September. By October I’d decided to move somewhere else based on the poor performance of the site and generally shoddy support experience. I’m now with SiteGround. They’re nice, fast and cheap enough for me. I’ve joined their affiliate program, so if you decide to sign up with them I can get some cash.

My blog got “hacked” yesterday. Someone put a redirect in place to a men’s performance pill site. Big thanks to Mike Yurick for pointing it out to me and to my colleague Josh for answering my pleas for help and stepping in and cleaning it up while I was on a plane inter-state. He used Wordfence to scan and clean up the site – check them out and make sure your backups are up to date. If it happens to you, and you don’t have a Josh, check out this guidance from WordPress.

The next Brisbane VMUG will be held on Tuesday February 21st. I’ll be putting up an article on it in the next few weeks. It will be sponsored by Veeam and should be great.

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